TEDDY C. RYAN
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA 279709
** +/- years of Project Management experience in international development including 5 +/- years with government funded international development programs for the US State Department and 5+/- years cumulatively with development strategic planning for private companies.
20 +/- years of experience in strategic operational planning, project/program management for improvement and achievement of contract goals.
Annual Work Plan development identifying tasks, sub-tasks, performance measurements, preparation, monitoring, evaluation, compliance reporting, and closeouts to donor representative
Authoritative presentations for various groups including boards of directors, stakeholders, community groups, local governing bodies, state/provincial/national/international senior staffs and legislative committees of state/provincial/national legislative committees including international host country groups and Committees of the U.S. Congress.
Capacity building for organizations and individuals with the design of training programs, conduct of workshops and focus sessions, preparation of manuals and materials for the conduct of group training and individual mentoring
Conduct of acquisitions using established rules of open solicitation, assessment & evaluation of submitted bids, negotiation and award of final contracts, and monitoring of performance
Dispute and conflict mitigation with assessment, mitigation design, and mediation of dispute
Experience working with challenges internationally in transitional and post-conflict countries and economies like Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, Kenya in Equatorial Africa.
Liaising with donor organizations, Contracting Office Representatives, other international program partners, and strategic stakeholders in the development and support of contract deliverable
Maintaining communications and submitting periodic reports to project/program supervisors and Contracting Office Representatives and working with senior staffs and officials of Ministries of Host Countries advancing decentralization of services and reform to the provinces
Performance measurement with definition/determination of measurements, monitoring and evaluation of program benchmarks and reporting contract achievements
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EXPERIENCE
February, 2014 – Present Self-Employed Management Consultant
Self-employed Management Consultant working with non-profit groups in North Carolina, USA providing management assistance and support and guidance to updating 501 © (3) documentation and records management, and financial auditing for Non-Profit Board of Directors consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and donor reporting.
November 2012 – January 2014 Municipal Service Delivery Advisor
Municipal Service Delivery Advisor with Development Alternatives International, LLC (DAI) for the USAID RAMP-UP West Program in Heart, Afghanistan working with four municipalities in Western Afghanistan supervising 10 professional engineers providing improved service delivery, infrastructure, capital improvements, planning, citizen involvement, capacity development, meetings, guidance and oversight of sub-grants with recipients’.
February 2011 – November 2011 Strategic Planner
Strategic Planner with PAE (Pacific Architects and Engineers) for the Comprehensive Criminal Justice Sector Development Program (CCJSDP) funded by the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) Bureau of the U.S. Department of State working with the creation of the South Sudan Road Safety Commission, and Emergency Response Coordination for security..
October 2010 – January 2011 National Subject Matter Expert
National Subject Matter Expert (NSME) as a Short-term Technical Advisor (STTA) working with Management Systems International (MSI) to complete the contractual program with the USAID/Local Government Program (LGP-IIII) in post-conflict Iraq providing organizational development technical assistance and guidance in the creation of Human Resource Management Offices and Civil Service Reform for LGP-III program teams for fifteen (15) provinces working with three (3) regional groups of international expats and Iraqi advisors for Offices of Provincial Governors and Provincial Councils of the Government of Iraq.
October 2008 – September 2010 Project Management Advisor
Project Management Advisor with Cardno Emerging Markets USA Ltd. for the USAID/Tatweer; Program Developing National Capacity Development in Public Management in post-conflict Iraq that provided training and capacity development for institutional organizational change management development to Ministries of the Government of Iraq. Work was in a core advisory role collaborating and supporting program colleagues in multiple program team leader responsibilities with varied Ministries of the Government of Iraq providing technical assistance for management/implementation and strategic project management to improve decentralization and sustainability. Duties also included liaison with Military PRT units, USAID, collaborating projects, Iraq Ministries, and representatives of local host country stakeholders’.
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June 2006 - December 2007 Economic Development Director
Directed the economic development program for Putnam County, Ohio to provide/public partnership to private sector groups to expand private industrial and commercial investments.
August 2005 - October 2008 Project Management Consultant
Self-employed Project Management Consultant working as an independent private consultant providing strategic planning/management for capital investment projects, community development, financial services, governmental incentives, creating public-private partnerships for industrial clients.
November 2003 - July 2005 Municipal Manager for Columbia, Pennsylvania
Accomplishments included strategic planning and project management of a citizen involved multi-faceted rehabilitation of the community’s commercial core with infrastructure and commercial revitalization through funding obtained with grant awards and attraction of major private investment using public-private partnerships.
October 2000 - October 2003 Municipal Manager for Sebring, Ohio
Accomplishments included the strategic planning and successful negotiation of a citizen participation and stakeholder involved community level industrial retention/expansion that included among other projects the expansion of an internationally known plastics manufacturing firm with a public-private partnership and management of major infrastructure projects for a community wide revitalization.
February 1998 - July 2000 Municipal Manager for Riverside, Ohio
Accomplishments included strategic planning and project management of a major community revitalization program, negotiation of grant funding awards and completion of two large infrastructure community development projects, enhancement of revenue collections; completion of a development marketing program; negotiation/creation of public-private partnerships; and completion of a major organizational development restructuring to streamline operations and change the organizational culture designed to improve capacity development, service delivery, operational sustainability, and citizen involvement.
October 1994 - January 1998 Municipal Manager for New Lebanon, Ohio
Accomplishments included strategic planning and project management of a major community based local economic development program involving the formation of public/private partnerships that received State and National awards for economic development.
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EDUCATION
Master of Public Administration, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Bachelor of Science-Business, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
RELATED TRAINING
Certified Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training Approved by the Ohio State Supreme Court
International Development Training through the International City/County Management Association.
Security (Police) Management Training through the
California Peace Officers Standards & Training Commission
RELATED RECENT EMPLOYERS
Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI) dai.com
7600 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 200 1-301-***-****
Bethesda, MD 20814
Pacifica Architects and Engineers (PAE) pae.com
7799 Leesburg Pike Suite 300 1-888-***-****
Arlington, VA 22201
Management Systems International(MSI) msiworldwide.com
200 12th Street, Suite 120*-*-***-***-
Arlington, VA USA 22201
Cardno Emerging Markets USA, Ltd. cardno.com
2107 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 800 1-703-***-****
Arlington, VA USA 22201